Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18744316 | TABLE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND MAPPING TO OTHER DOCUMENTS | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18736113 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing Text Extracted from Images and Performing Appropriate Transformations on the Extracted Text | June 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18670508 | PASSIVE DISAMBIGUATION OF ASSISTANT COMMANDS | May 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18639988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ASSISTED ACTIVITY TRAINING | April 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18631585 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | April 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18617179 | MODULAR ENERGY SYSTEM FOR USE IN A SURGICAL ENVIRONMENT | March 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18587505 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | February 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18582531 | IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS THAT CONTAIN POTENTIAL CODE WORDS USING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18418870 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS HISTORY INFORMATION OF EXECUTED JOBS ACCORDING TO MODE OF OPERATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18526893 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PORTION OF SPORTS GAME | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18507985 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | November 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18387892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HINT WORDS FOR AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION | November 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18387441 | Smart Wearable Electric Devices and Methods for Communication | November 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18487950 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMANENT IMAGING CONTROL | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18554324 | DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM | October 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18474098 | IDENTIFICATION OF SEIZURE ONSET ZONE IN FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18469420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE CONTROLLED AUTOMATIC INFORMATION ACCESS AND RETRIEVAL | September 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18463951 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing Text Extracted from Images and Performing Appropriate Transformations on the Extracted Text | September 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18239622 | INFORMATION ACQUISITION SUPPORT APPARATUS, INFORMATION ACQUISITION SUPPORT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION ACQUISITION SUPPORT PROGRAM | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18238870 | INFORMATION ACQUISITION SUPPORT APPARATUS, INFORMATION ACQUISITION SUPPORT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION ACQUISITION SUPPORT PROGRAM | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18236290 | RESOLVING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT REQUESTS THAT ARE BASED ON IMAGE(S) AND/OR OTHER SENSOR DATA | August 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18229083 | SELF-SUPERVISED SELF SUPERVISION BY COMBINING PROBABILISTIC LOGIC WITH DEEP LEARNING | August 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18360938 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | July 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18213604 | USING VOICE INPUT TO CONTROL A USER INTERFACE WITHIN AN APPLICATION | June 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18325428 | GENERATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BLOOD FLOW SPECTRUM ENVELOPE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18201987 | TRANSFERRING AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ROUTINE BETWEEN CLIENT DEVICES DURING EXECUTION OF THE ROUTINE | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18038517 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF PREDICTING PARKINSON'S DISEASE BASED ON RETINAL IMAGES USING MACHINE LEARNING | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18037560 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR ASSISTING WITH SURVEILLANCE OF AN ELEMENT OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR, ASSOCIATED COMPUTER AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | May 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18311208 | IMAGE RECOGNITION | May 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18028478 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PLATE AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING TOXICITY OF TEST SUBSTANCE | March 2023 | February 2026 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18186205 | MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE, AND OPERATION METHOD AND OPERATION PROGRAM OF MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE | March 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18181936 | SUPPORTING AUDIO ELEMENT WITH VOICE RECOGNITION FOR A FURNITURE ITEM | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18181406 | IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS THAT CONTAIN POTENTIAL CODE WORDS USING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | March 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18178634 | RADIATION DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, RADIATION DETECTOR AND OUTPUT DETERMINATION METHOD | March 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18175906 | SINGLE STREAM MULTI-LEVEL ALIGNMENT FOR VISION-LANGUAGE PRETRAINING | February 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18162968 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | February 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18160857 | AUDIO PROCESSING SYSTEM, AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE, AND AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD | January 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18160694 | STEREO DEPTH ESTIMATION USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS | January 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18006703 | CONTROL DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE | January 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18157267 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING USER INTENT BASED ON IMAGE-CAPTURED USER ACTIONS | January 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18006145 | DEEP LEARNING CARDIAC SEGMENTATION AND MOTION VISUALIZATION | January 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18005671 | INSPECTION DEVICE | January 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18153400 | REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT OF WORKER FATIGUE USING LEARNING-BASED MODEL | January 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18087598 | TRAINING A VARIABLE AUTOENCODER USING A DIFFUSION MODEL | December 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18065843 | HYBRID LOCAL AND GLOBAL PROCESSING OF VOICE REQUESTS FROM USERS | December 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18065711 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND TRACKING OBJECTS IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | December 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18079097 | MOBILE OBJECT CONTROL DEVICE, MOBILE OBJECT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078989 | LEARNABLE DEFECT DETECTION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR APPLICATIONS | December 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17999983 | PRESENTATION OF PATIENT INFORMATION FOR CARDIAC BLOOD FLOW PROCEDURES | November 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17993689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING IMAGES ON A DEVICE | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057042 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE CONTROLLED CHANNEL CHANGE OF A RADIO | November 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17990471 | ANATOMICAL LOCATION DETECTION OF FEATURES OF A GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT OF A PATIENT | November 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17999111 | SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING VISUAL AND/OR AUDITORY TRACKING OF A PRESENTATION GIVEN BY A PRESENTER | November 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18055574 | DETECTING CROSS-LINGUAL COMPARABLE LISTINGS | November 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984479 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HINT WORDS FOR AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION | November 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18052418 | System and method for scene graph lossless compression by context-based graph convolution | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17979336 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING AND PROCESSING USER CONSUMPTION OF INFORMATION | November 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17970298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A FEDERATED COMPUTER VISION REGRESSION MODEL USING DISTRIBUTED TRAINING | October 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 35 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17969537 | BEHAVIOR DETECTION | October 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17919390 | Method and Arrangement for the digital Capture of Spaces in a Building | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17964815 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND JOB OUTPUT METHOD | October 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17936768 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | September 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17906748 | QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND EVALUATION METHOD FOR COLOR OF HEMANGIOMA | September 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17947972 | END-TO-END MEASUREMENT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SPECIMENS | September 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17946339 | System and Computer-Implemented Method for Assigning at Least One Contrast to at Least One Magnetic Resonance Image Dataset | September 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17932936 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING CLINICAL TRIAL IMAGE EVALUATION DATA | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17940610 | METHOD OF ROBUST SURFACE AND DEPTH ESTIMATION | September 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17799925 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING WORKFLOW OF EXAMINATION OF PATHOLOGY SLIDES | August 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17888423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | August 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17887618 | System and Method for Identifying Feature in an Image of a Subject | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17798870 | BLOOD FLOW FIELD ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, BLOOD FLOW FIELD ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17817846 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | August 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17794579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINATION OF A TRAJECTORY AND IMAGING DEVICE | July 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17869986 | AUXILLIARY DEVICE AND AUXILLIARY METHOD FOR EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA NEEDLE PLACEMENT | July 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17813334 | ADJUSTED DATA CONSISTENCY IN DEEP LEARNING RECONSTRUCTIONS | July 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17793125 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING IMAGE CAPTURED BY DRONE | July 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17864815 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | July 2022 | November 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17811884 | IMAGE SETTING DEVICE, IMAGE SETTING METHOD, AND IMAGE SETTING PROGRAM | July 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17785071 | MAKING MEASUREMENTS IN IMAGES | June 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17826854 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17826565 | CREATING A NAVIGATION PATHWAY TO A TARGET IN THE LUNG AND METHOD OF NAVIGATING TO THE TARGET | May 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17664641 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMANENT IMAGING CONTROL | May 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17745087 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REFINING DIMENSIONS OF A GENERALLY CUBOIDAL 3D OBJECT IMAGED BY 3D VISION SYSTEM AND CONTROLS FOR THE SAME | May 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17755684 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND GENERATION METHOD | May 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17735821 | INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, INSPECTION PROGRAM, AND INSPECTION METHOD | May 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17726712 | TIME-SERIES FORECASTING BASED ON DETECTED DOWNTIME | April 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17721395 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CAPTURING AND COORDINATING PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES OF MULTIPLE USERS | April 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17769103 | PERSON STATE DETECTION APPARATUS, PERSON STATE DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | April 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17721018 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | April 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17718661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE RESTORATION BASED ON BURST IMAGE | April 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17706578 | ORNAMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD | March 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17656391 | ERROR-BASED EXPLANATIONS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BEHAVIOR | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17762532 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE FUSION, COMPUTING PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17699150 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17761578 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PREDICTIVE IMAGES FOR WAFER INSPECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING | March 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17690591 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17689226 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE BASED SYSTEM TO TRACK SOLAR PANEL SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION AND COMMISSIONING | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17653931 | WORK ESTIMATION APPARATUS, WORK ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17653213 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANNOTATIONS FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | March 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17638693 | AUDIO INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner AUGUSTIN, MARCELLUS.
Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.
In this dataset, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner AUGUSTIN, MARCELLUS works in Art Unit 2682 and has examined 187 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 97.9%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.
Examiner AUGUSTIN, MARCELLUS's allowance rate of 97.9% places them in the 90% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by AUGUSTIN, MARCELLUS receive 1.68 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 35% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by AUGUSTIN, MARCELLUS is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 60% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +3.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by AUGUSTIN, MARCELLUS. This interview benefit is in the 25% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 37.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 86% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 57.1% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 83% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 73% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 92% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 80.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 0.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 4% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 22% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 1.1% of allowed cases (in the 62% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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